Are you a journey person or a destination person? Do you enjoy the work it takes to get you to a goal, or is the end result the most important thing?

I’m a little of both. More...

Life is rarely linear and often has no interest in following whatever script we’ve written out for ourselves. I know for dead-certain that I didn’t plan to get cancer (or that...

Are you doing what you should? Or what you must?

The words might seem similar, but believe me, there’s an enormous difference between the two.

Should is what the...

Have you read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? It’s one of a few very funny books by Douglas Adams. I was thinking of a scene in it where the alien Zaphod Beeblebrox teaches the...

“I love your hair. Seriously. You have the best hair!”

My coffee date has just joined me at a window table in Starbucks. This is our second meeting, the first...

 You never know when the Universe will bitch-slap you with some truth.

I sat down for lunch recently, pulling out the latest Oprah magazine. “Mmmm,” I thought, “Elizabeth...

I was in a meeting recently, receiving feedback on some work I’m doing. One participant’s feedback reminded me of two really good pieces of advice that are the only things keeping me...

 A few years back I attended the the National Speakers Association’s Winter Conference in Austin, TX. It was my very first NSA experience and I loved so much about it.

As a newbie,...

I’m gonna level with you: it’s never quite enough for me to do what I know I should just because it’s good for me.

For example, my focus for February is extreme...

It’s easy to respond to the grenades life throws at us with fear. So often when the ground is pulled out from underneath us, all we can do is claw frantically at anything that may hold...